Mary Lou Judd Carpenter, author of Mariam’s Words: The Personal Price of a Public Life, will be presenting on her book and her life experiences. Miriam’s Words, an in-depth, real-time account of the life of the spouse of a public servant in the midtwentieth century, is a collection of letters written by Miriam Judd, wife of Dr. Walter Judd. The original collection included some 2,000 letters, and was compiled and edited by Mary Lou Judd Carpenter, the daughter of the writer.